• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.69-84
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• 2005

As the Internet users are increasing rapidly, a cluster web server system is attracted by many researchers and Internet service providers. The cluster web server has been developed to efficiently support a larger number of users as well as to provide high scalable and available system. In order to provide the high performance in the cluster web server, efficient load distribution is important, and recently many content-aware request distribution techniques have been proposed. In this paper, we propose a new content-aware load balancing technique that can evenly distribute the workload to each node in the cluster web server. The proposed technique is based on the hash histogram transformation, in which each URL entry of the web log file is hashed, and the access frequency and file size are accumulated as a histogram. Each user request is assigned into a node by mapping of (hashed value-server node) in the histogram transformation. In the proposed technique, the histogram is updated periodically and then the even distribution of user requests can be maintained continuously. In addition to the load balancing, our technique can exploit the cache effect to improve the performance. The simulation results show that the performance of our technique is quite better than that of the traditional round-robin method and we can improve the performance more than $10\%$ compared with the existing workload-aware load balancing(WARD) method.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.106-109
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• 2004

This study designs a load balancer via direct routing that share a virtual service on a single IP address in the Linux system and suggests an efficient load balancing method to improve transmission speed in the web server cluster environment. It will increase performance and scalability with fast packet transfer and removing bottleneck problem by using TCP Splicing and Content-Aware Distributor method. This method is expected to be the noticeable technology that provides an important interface, which make application services for e-commerce effectively be applied to high-speed network infrastructure. At this time, it is required to study further on the optimum balancing method in the web server cluster environment so as to apply the hybrid (optimum load balancing method by software and hardware) method and improve the reuse of security cession based on high-speed TCP connections.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.22-37
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• 2013

Content distribution to a large number of concurrent clients stresses both server and network. While the server limitation can be circumvented by deploying server clusters, the network limitation is far less easy to cope with, due to the difficulty in measuring and balancing network load. In this paper, we use two useful network load metrics, the worst link stress (WLS) and the degree of interference (DOI), and formulate the problem as partitioning the clients into disjoint subsets subject to the server capacity constraint so that the WLS and the DOI are reduced for each session and also well balanced across the sessions. We present a network load-aware partition algorithm, which is practicable and effective in achieving the design goals. Through experiments on PlanetLab, we show that the proposed scheme has the remarkable advantages over existing schemes in reducing and balancing the network load. We expect the algorithm and performance metrics can be easily applied to various Internet applications, such as media streaming, multicast group member selection.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.30 no.12B
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• pp.818-830
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• 2005

Recently, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) overlay networks like CAN, Chord, Pastry and Tapestry offer a novel platform for scalable and decentralized distributed applications. These systems provide efficient and fault-tolerant routing, object location, and load balancing within a self-organizing overlay network. Content Delivery Network (CDN) is an intermediate layer of infrastructure that helps to efficiently deliver the multimedia content from content providers to clients. In this paper, We propose a topology-aware P2P overlay network for CDN, Rosary, in which CDN servers perform Intra-Pastry and Inter-Pastry routing based on a two-level structured overlay network. This proposed system extends pastry by adapting itself to CDN environments, where a semi-hashing based scheme for Intra-Pastry routing is introduced, and dynamic landmark technology is used to construct the topology-aware overlay network. Through simulations on NS-2, it is shown that Rosary is scalable, efficient, and flexible.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.631-633
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• 2002

본 논문은 대용량 클러스터 기반의 웹 서버 상에서 새로운 내용 기반 부하 분산 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 웹 서버 로그의 URL 항목에 해시 함수를 적용하여 얻어지는 해시 값에 요청 빈도와 전송될 과일 크기를 누적하여 히스토그램을 생성한다. 그 결과로 생성된 히스토그램의 누적 분포에 히스토그램 균등화 변환함수를 적용하여 각각의 서버 노드에 해시 값에 따라 분포하는 부하를 균등하게 할당할 수 있다. 제안된 부하 분산 기법의 효율성 검증을 위한 시뮬레이션에서 히스토그램 균등화 기법은 서버의 지역적인 캐시 활용과 부하의 균등분산 등의 장점으로 우수한 성능을 나타냄을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.369-372
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• 2002

본 논문은 대용량 클러스터 기반의 웹 서버를 위한 새로운 내용 기반 부하 분산 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 웹 서버 로그의 URL 항목에 해시 함수를 적용하여 얻어지는 해시 값에 요청 빈도와 전송될 파일 크기를 누적하여 히스토그램을 생성한다. 그 결과로 생성된 히스토그램의 누적 분포에 히스토그램 균등화 변환함수를 적용하여 각각의 서버 노드에 해시 값에 따라 분포하는 부하를 균등하게 할당할 수 있다. 제안된 부하 분산 기법의 효율성 검증을 위한 시뮬레이션에서 히스토그램 균등화 기법은 서버의 지역적인 캐시 활용과 부하의 균등 분산 등의 장점으로 우수한 성능을 나타냄을 보인다.